There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

"There was no book harder to put down this year than this one. Rory Carroll makes it clear that this will not be a definitive history of the conflict in Ireland known as “The Troubles.” Instead, he focuses on the would-be assassins of The Iron Lady, the victims who weren’t so lucky, and the law enforcement officers who had the seemingly impossible task of finding the mysterious bomber. Carroll wrote this book after exhaustive interviews with those directly involved, and he makes it clear how much history would have changed if those two minutes had a different outcome."